2016 Tellier 'Vignes de Pierry' Premier Cru Extra Brut Millesime Champagne, France core precise wine showing rich minerality

precise wine showing rich minerality

father’s muscat plantings in Nicholas Mariotti

2019 Jean-Jacques Morel Saint-Aubin Rouge

and lively and fun

also local winemakers on the hill

2016 Tellier 'Vignes de Pierry' Premier Cru Extra Brut Millesime Champagne, France core precise wine showing rich mineralitySOIL: Dominated by chalk and flint VITICULTURE: Practicing organic; manual harvest and stringent grape selection VINIFICATION: Direct press and selection of the first juices; cold settling for 12 to 24 hours without enzymes, then the juice is put into barrels; fermentation in barrels, demi muids and foudres. AGING: 8 months oak aging with partial malolactic fermentation; minimum 40 months of ageing in bottles and minimum 3 months after disgorgement,